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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Ted Cruz Is a Lying Fuck Bastard - Part 6

Greetings, my blog reading friend. I'm Dave-Eland I welcome you to my blog,I'm So Glad My Suffering Amuses You. Today is another part of my ongoing series of posts examining the statements of one of the candidates for US President, taking a measured and scholarly review of this particular individual's expressions in speeches, debates and comments to the media and looking deep into the meanings of words and the very concepts of truth itself. I call this series of posts...

This past Saturday saw Ted Cruz come in 3rd place in the South Carolina Republican primary. It was a narrow loss to 2nd place finisher Marco Rubio and a more decisive one to Donald Trump. But a loss of any kind in South Carolina is still considered bad news for Cruz. South Carolina was described as tailor made for Cruz with its strong conservative pro-gun evangelical presence. The failure to not take at least 2nd in this state and make more inroads against Trump in South Carolina shows the limits of Cruz's appeal, even to the very demographic his campaign is modeled on for its strongest appeal. Cruz came in third in Nevada with an even more commanding win by Donald Trump. Oddly, Trump is snatching away all the pious evangelicals that Cruz thought would flock to him. Also the poorly educated. (Trump loves the poorly educated.) But Ted Cruz is still in there swinging and doing what he does best, blaming others. Cruz lamented of his GOP opponents in an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday. "They scream, 'Liar, liar, liar,' they impugn your integrity, they attack your character."For more on that story, click here. By the way, here is a snap shot of some of the comments posted in response to this story.

By the way, whoever added the baby to Ted's face? Great job! In the wake of the South Carolina primary loss, Ted Cruz made news for "asking for the resignation" of his communications director Rick Tyler. Apparently Tyler was the one Cruz was throwing under the bus for a video reportedly showing Marco Rubio mocking the Bible. Not true. I'm wondering why the specific phrasing "asking for the resignation" instead of "fired his ass"? I think Cruz's rep for lies and dirty tricks are actually starting to hurt Cruz with the evangelicals he's seeking to court. Just as this regular series of blog posts I do here show, deception is a continual narrative for Cruz, one that I think is starting to seep through to Cruz's target demographic. I guess these voters prefer Trump's blunt insults to Cruz's sneaky deceptions. Anyway, no one seems to be buying Ted's big show of integrity by "asking for the resignation" of this communications director. The consensus seems to be Rick Tyler is Ted's sacrificial scapegoat to make Ted look better.For more on this story, click here. _______________________________

Something Ted Cruz loves to do is stir up a controversy that doesn't even exist. For example, get a load of the Texas senator's attempt to set up a false bogeyman when he said the Supreme Court is “one justice away” from ordering that crosses on tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery be torn down.Nobody is even asking the court to do such a thing. And in fact, the group that sought removal of a cross from formerly federal land in the Mojave Desert — losing the 5-4 decision to which Cruz referred — strongly supports crosses and other religious symbols on government-issued headstones at Arlington and other military cemeteries.____________________________________Or how about this: At the debate on 02/06/2016 during Ted Cruz’s turn to speak, he started by cataloging the alleged evils of “socialized medicine.” Here’s the full quote:

Socialized medicine is a disaster. It does not work. If you look at the countries that have imposed socialized medicine, that have put the government in charge of providing medicine, what inevitably happens is rationing. You have a scarcity of doctors. ... And that means the elderly are told: We're going to ration a hip replacement; we're going to ration a knee replacement. We're going to ration end-of-life care.

Every single sentence in that quote is misleading or flat-out false. For more on that story and the detail analysis of each sentence in that statement, click here.

It's stuff like this that leads Ted Cruz's opponents to say "Liar, liar, liar!" And it's stuff like this why we say....TED CRUZ IS A LYING FUCK BASTARD. Thank you for coming by the blog.....Hold on! One more thing. Sorry, couldn't resist.